Alcuse01

Thank you!!! That worked. Really appreciate your help!!

HI -- hoping someone might be able to help. I'm guessing this is an easy fix but I just can't find anything on it. I created a video which mixes in short video clips recorded from my iphone, along with photos both taken from my iphone and some I 'borrowed' from the web. The photos all seem to be getting layered. Initially I thought it was only the photos I took from my iphone that I took horizontally (so leaving the boarders on the sides) but I'm seeing even the photos from the web are having this issue. All the photos and images are on video track 2. I thought if I put a solid black slide throughout the full video on track 1, I might be able to avoid this 'layering' but that didn't work. I don't have any transition at all, so each image should end when the new image begins. Each image is 1.2 seconds. Yet I'm still getting layering, and sometimes the layering is from an image 30 seconds later. So the smaller image is on top, but the borders are showing the larger image as a background. Also, when I play it back within videopad, either the timeline or maximize, its fine. When I export it, is when I get the issue. I don't see an option on how to add photos within here, but I can certainly send some examples if that helps. I tried different export speeds too and that didn't seem to work either. If you have any ideas, pls pls let me know. Really appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance!

Borate - thanks again. I don't understand why it works for you but not for me. I checked my settings in both Youtube and Google drive, and don't see any options to adjust the ratio or zoom. I know I'm exporting it correctly so it doesn't make sense to me. For whatever reason, it seems both players are adjusting to the width of the iphone video and not the width of the actual project. I do appreciate you providing me the export for download. I'm just concerned about running into this issue again with my next video.

HI Borate -- thanks so much for responding. As instructed, please find the shareable link below. Within the very first scene, you can see how "Breckenridge 2019" overlays the iphone video and into the black borders. But whenever I export it, the overlay seems to disappear and only the letters within the width of the iphone video remain. The other text overlays I have in the video also run into this problem. At 3:13 I have an iphone video clip I took horizontally -- which when playing within the project, fills up the full screen. But when I export it, this again shrinks down to only the size of the vertical video. The aspect ratio of this clip is 16:9. Finally - I've tried exporting this straight to youtube in 1080, 720, 16:9 vertical, as well as straight to google drive, with 1080, 720, mp4 and mov, letterbox, and crop and zoom, ,and finally, 1024 TV wide -- and nothing works. I also tried editing just the first video clip of the project into a 16:9 ratio, thinking maybe that would work to "trick" the export into the right width. That didn't work either. I also added an additional layer of just black background thinking that too could trick the export into the right width, and of course that didn't work either. Really hope you can assist. Thanks again for your time! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CfjI1UZkc2gtmKsoPq8YyEnVSypePKks/view?usp=sharing

Hi all, I just purchased the software and created 2 short "home videos" with the software so far. The first, I used a gopro for the video clips. Everything worked fine. The 2nd, I used only my iphone, and have come to realize that filming vertically creates a "skinny" video. But what I'm also finding an issue with, is even after adding text overlay on top of this video, the text, and entire video, seems to "shrink" into the width of the iphone video. However, within the actual project, it shows the way i want it to, and has the text extend into the black boarders. (note, the text is the layer above the video within the project) Also - the video I actually did film horizontally, so that the video should show normal size, also appears "skinny" when I export it... but appears fine in the project. I've tried exporting directly to Youtube (1080) , and also to Google drive (720). Can anyone help this extreme beginner? 1) the first scene shows the text issue. It should state - "Breckenridge 2019". 2) at 3:21 shows the horizontal video that's "skinny" after export ---> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GwEF01oYWS0OVd0JYExviX5v5SS47WZF/view?usp=sharing